Grouse Lake
Originally posted to RohJuh.com on Jul 5, 2002. On July 03, Judy, Aaron, Kate, and myself headed up to King’s Canyon for a four-day backpacking trip. We couldn’t secure permits in advance so the plan was to head up on Wednesday, camp in front of the ranger station and hope that enough permits would still be available on Thursday morning. If we could get permits, we would set out on Thursday morning; if not, we would have to wait until 1:00 PM Thursday afternoon to get permits to start on Friday. We left San Diego around 2:30 and hit a bit of traffic on the way. Dinnertime found us at Lyons where we stopped off to have some Italian food at Floritinos Trattoria. The food was pretty good. And since we were about to set off on a calorie-consuming backpacking trip, we felt a big dessert was in order so we hit a nearby Baskin Robbins for some yummy ice cream dessert. We continued on and ended up getting to the ranger’s station at a little past midnight. We quickly unpacked, put the...